Join Us for our First Saturday Free Writing Workshop (4:24pm) followed by Reading & Open Mic (6:05 pm) with Peter Ludwin & Allen Braden. Sat. Nov. 2nd.
Free Writing Workshop @ 4:24 pm Peter Ludwin leads a workshop on the Persona Poem. "we'll familiarize ourselves with various persona poems, emphasizing in particular how vital they are for a poet to expand his/her imagination, followed by participants writing their own persona poems and reading them."
Reading and Open Mic -- sign up 6:05 pm to 6:15 pm Features: Peter Ludwin & Allen Braden & YOU on the open mic!
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Bios -- Peter Ludwin's new book, 'An Altar of Tides', inhabits various parts of his beloved Pacific Northwest. Winner of the 2024 Trail to Table Editors’ Award in Poetry, it was published by Trail to Table Books, an environmental imprint of Wandering Aengus Press. The author of three previous books of poetry and the 2016 winner of the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Award for his poem 'Wolf Concerto,' Ludwin attributes the lion’s share of his success to the fourteen years he was a participant in the weeklong San Miguel Poetry Week in fabled San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he workshopped under top poets such as Mark Doty, Joseph Stroud and Robert Wrigley, Tony Hoagland, Patricia Goedecke and many others, including Scots poet Alastair Reid, whose dictum, “Listen to how it sounds on the ear!” paralleled his own reality.
Ludwin is A world traveler who has journeyed by canoe to visit remote Indian families in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador, hiked in the Peruvian Andes, thumbed for rides in Greece, bargained for goods in the markets of Marrakech and Istanbul and survived debilitating illness in China and Tibet, he is also accomplished on acoustic blues guitar and autoharp. His poems have ap-
peared in many journals, including Atlanta Review, The Bitter Oleander, The Comstock Review, Crab Orchard Review, Nimrod, North American Review and Prairie Schooner, to name a few.
He is the recipient of a Literary Fellowship from Artist Trust and the W.D. Snodgrass Award for Endeavor and Excellence in Poetry,
In 2016 MoonPath Press published his third book, Gone to Gold Mountain, which often uses a favorite device—the persona poem—to address the massacre of over thirty Chinese gold miners in Oregon’s Hells Canyon in 1887. It was nominated for a Washington State Book Award, and The Before Columbus Foundation also nominated it for an American Book Award. He is a resident of Kent, Wa.
Allen Braden is the author of 'A Wreath of Down and Drops of Blood', a finalist for the Walt Whitman Award judged by Mary Oliver, and 'Elegy in the Passive Voice', winner of the University of Alaska’s Midnight Sun Chapbook Contest. His writing has received awards, including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a writer's residency at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives and writes in Lakewood.